How to get virtualenv to use dist-packages on Ubuntu?

Question

I know that virtualenv, if not passed the --no-site-packages argument when creating a new virtual environment, will link the packages in /usr/local/lib/py

Answer 1

PYTHONPATH works for me.

vim ~/.bashrc

add this line below:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
source ~/.bashrc